jake wrote:
>
>> am I the only one who has no problem dividing a bill properly? If no
>> one is treating me to a dinner, I order whatever I want, and pay for
>> it. There is no way that I would split a bill evenly. Why do you guys
>> do it that way?
>>
> I do it because of group pressure from people who have already entered
> the stadium of semi-drunkenness (when the bill arrives) and who don't
> give nearly as much thought to budgets as I do. Or who may simply never
> have been as poor as I have been and thus have a different understanding
> of money. I feel very uncomfortable bringing the subject up (it 5:1).

I still don't get it. I would simply put down enough to cover what I
ordered and the corresponding tip, and let them split the rest of the
bill in whatever asinine way they chose to. Would your friends really
get that ****ed off if you did that?

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